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This video shows what happens if you accidentally misspell google.com and instead put in goggle.com. This leads to a website for “Spysheriff”, which is malware/fraudulent spyware program that puts fake alerts of various infections on your computer along with installing a large amount of other junk.

Do Not Try this….When your computer does not have necessary fix packs and security fixes.

Researcher demonstates Adobe Reader attack

Malicious code can be installed through legit features.

A security researcher claims it is possible to install malicious code on a user’s computer through standard Adobe Reader features.

David Kierznowski has published proof of concept documents for exploiting the ubiquitous software that are not traditional software code flaws, but instead demonstrate a new trend affecting desktop applications – the use of legitimate features for dangerous ends.

“Recently, there has been alot of hype involving backdooring various Web technologies,” said Kierznowski in his study. He said PDF documents seem like an obvious target because they support JavaScript, but found that exploitation wasn’t straightforward, partly because Adobe supports its own JavaScript model.read more | digg story

From the security blog over at cnet “Mozilla is now using technology that automates the bug-checking process for Firefox, its popular open-source Web browser.” Sounds like it could be a good or bad thing….

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